Andy Lyons/Getty ImagesAaron Ross is one of the six free agent cornerbacks the Giants front office will have to make a decision on.

It’s been less than three weeks since the Giants won Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis, but coaches and front office officials are back there this week to turn the page on the 2011 season with the annual scouting combine, the unofficial beginning of the offseason.

In addition to the draft, the Giants will have to make decisions on a number of free agents on their roster, including six cornerbacks. The prominent names are Terrell Thomas, who missed the entire 2011 season with a torn ACL, and Aaron Ross, who was slated as the team’s third cornerback but jumped on the depth chart due to Thomas’ injury. He started all but one game, recording 60 tackles and four interceptions.

Ross, a first-round pick in 2007, has struggled at times in his five seasons but has started 41 games for the Giants and was a starter on two Super Bowl teams. He has 10 career interceptions.

He wants to be back, but said it’s out of his hands.

“Of course, of course,” Ross told the Star-Ledger after a MAB Celebrity Services appearance in Franklin Lakes today. “I’ve been here five years so that’s like asking me if I want to go back to (Texas). I invested four years there and five years here so my heart is here."

The Giants currently have just two cornerbacks under contract for next season -- Corey Webster and Prince Amukamara.

“It’s up to them," Ross said. "It’s completely up to them if they want to bring me back or not. I don’t get into it too much. I don’t worry about it. My agent, he’ll take care of it.”

His heart may be in East Rutherford, but Ross repeated that the NFL is a business and wouldn’t say whether he would give the Giants a hometown discount.

“I don’t know. We got to see,” the unrestricted free agent said. “It’s all a business. It’s all a business. I don’t know numbers. I’ll leave that up to my agent.

“I’ve seen that it’s a business from the start. Coming into the league, Sam (Madison), all of those guys told me it’s a business so the front office is going to take care of themselves and we as players have to take care of ourselves. Hopefully we can meet somewhere in the middle to where both of us agree.”

The secondary’s turnaround late in the season contributed heavily to the team’s reversal and will likely contribute to a better market for him.

“It’s huge,” he said. “Any player going to free agency coming off a Super Bowl win, it’s a bonus for them especially if he’s a starter. Hopefully it’ll come out in my favor.